Mapping Distributed Renewables
The grid cannot see what it does not meter. It only sees the demand that never arrives.
A growing share of renewable capacity sits behind the meter, on rooftops and small sites. The grid sees it only as demand that did not arrive.
Residual load forecasts and network plans start from official capacity registers. Those registers lag the real installed base, so the error is built in before the first cloud.
We are building AI that reads satellite and aerial imagery, and the gap this capacity leaves in measured load, to estimate what is installed, where it sits and what it produces. We start with rooftop solar.
Traders and utilities get residual load built on the real fleet. Grid operators get a map of where generation sits, so they invest only where the network needs it.